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The Aztec Calendar and Other Solar Monuments
by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma and Felipe Solis
A unique book that brings together two of the most important expressions of the pre-Hispanic era: The Aztec Calendar and the solar symbol Nahui Ollin. Time has transformed the Aztec Calendar into a symbol associated with ruthless human sacrifices performed by the Mexicas. Well-documented studies by these two talented scholars uncover the true purpose of the stone and the historical events which resulted in the creation of this marvelous ...
Hardback. Price GB £35.00
El Calendario Azteca y Otros Monumentos Solares
by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma and Felipe Solis
Un libro unico que presenta dos de los elementos mas importantes de la era prehispanica: El Calendario Azteca y el simbolo Nahui Ollin. El tiempo a transformado al Calendario Azteca en un simbolo asociado con despiadados sacrificios humanos. El analisis riguroso de estos dos talentosos expertos en el tema descubre el verdadero proposito de esta maravillosa piedra y los eventos historicos que resultaron en su creacion. Este es un libro unico que ...
Hardback. Price GB £35.00
Excavations at Altun Ha, Belize, 1964-1970, Volume 2
by David M. Pendergast
^BExcavations at Altun Ha, Belize, 1964-1970, Volume 2
Hardback. Price GB £9.95
Hardback. Price GB £9.95
Mujeres Latinoamericanas en Movimiento/Latin American Women as a Moving Force
by Holmfridur Gardarsdottir
This is the fifth volume of essays on Latin American Women´s Studies published by HAINA (The Association of Nordic Researchers on Gender in Latin America). The volume addresses questions of social- and political science, literary criticism, religion and anthropology. The articles published in Latin American Women as a Moving Force appear in English or Spanish. The publication is the outcome of a conference organized in Iceland, in ...
Paperback. Price GB £30.00
Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature
by Louise M Burkhart
The introduction of the Virgin Mary to the native peoples of Mexico is often closely associated with Our Lady of Guadalupe, the principal Mexican Marian devotion. According to legend, the devotion originated in 1531 when the Virgin appeared to a Nahua man, Juan Diego, and left her image miraculously imprinted on his cloak. Historical evidence indicates, however, that the Mexican shrine was not established until the 1560s, the legend was virtually ...
Paperback. Price GB £15.00
Classic Period Mixtequilla, Veracruz, Mexico: Diachronic Inferences from Residential Investigations
by Barbara L Stark
This archaeological site report presents new in sights on an important but poorly-studied Mesoamerican culture-the Classic period of the Mexican Gulf Coast. Stark discusses her excavations at several sites in the Mixtequilla region, describes the deposits and artifacts encountered, and provides interpretations of the sites and their significance within a wider context. Her analysis of the ephemeral remains of perishable houses is innovative and ...
Paperback. Price GB £26.00
La Chronique X: Reconstitution et analyse d'une source perdue fondamentale sur la civilisation Aztèque, d'après l'Historia de las Indias de Nueva España de D. Durán (1581) et la Crónica Mexicana de F. A. Tezozomoc (ca. 1598) including the full parallel texts of Tezozomoc and Durán
by Sylvie Peperstraete
Paperback. Price GB £53.00
Cultural Change on a Temporal and Spatial Frontier BAR S1325
by James J. Aimers
Discussions of Mayan civilisation are still beset by questions of collapse and its causes and the Upper Belize Valley is no exception. This study examines the issue through a comparative assessment of ceramic evidence from sites in this region dating from ...
Paperback. Price GB £37.00
Ancient Maya Life in the Far West Bajo: Social and Environmental Change in the Wetlands of Belize
by Julie L. Kunen
The Bajo is a seasonal wetland area in north west Belize. During the period from c.400 BC to AD 600 the activities of the inhabitants of this area had a dramatic detrimental effect on the local environment and subsistence base upon which they relied for ...
Paperback. Price GB £13.50
The Presence of Teotihuacan in the Cuitzeo Basin, Michoacan, Mexico BAR S1279
by Agani Filini
Traditionally, the large, monumental site of Teotihuacan has been seen as being the core in a core-periphery model, controlling excahange networks and exercising political control over a passive and subordinate periphery. This study questions whether this ...
Paperback. Price GB £32.00
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